the.com/it infrastructure
the plumbing of civilization, only it breaks at 3am and pages you personally.
means the servers, networks, storage, and systems that let software actually run instead of just existing as an idea.
from grew out of 1960s mainframe rooms and corporate data centers, then exploded when the internet made every business a tech business whether it wanted to be or not.
invisible until brokennobody notices it works, everyone notices when it does not
cloud shiftmost infrastructure now rented, not owned, by the hour
biggest costoften people and maintenance, not the hardware itself
single point failureone misconfigured router can down entire companies